Yeah, that's a fair point. We have spreadsheets with that info but we haven't posted it publicly. We should really make it available via the API — right now it's pretty hard to get from here: (1) https://www.ifixit.com/api/2.0/categorie... We do have three summary pages with the info: (1) https://www.ifixit.com/smartphone_repair... (2) https://www.ifixit.com/laptop_repairabil... (3) https://www.ifixit.com/tablet_repairabil... Hopefully that's good enough for now!
That's very odd. I just uploaded your file a couple times and it worked for me. But I can confirm that your upload failed. I'm sorry! If we can track down the root cause, we'll fix it. A couple things to try: (1) Email your source file to kyle at ifixit (in case something is slightly different) (2) What's your browser? Try a different one (3) Transcode the file to something like MP4 and then upload again
It's not just you — we haven't been working on the app much. We do have a minor bugfix release to the Android app coming soon. I think some of the formatting is improved. But the web interface is better, particularly for Answers. The Android app is great for taking photos and writing guides. It's also helpful for storing guides offline when you're going away from network access. But for day-to-day use, I recommend the mobile site.
Ah — I know the problem. We have not turned on community translation for Russian guides yet because we don't yet have a moderator that can review submissions. We're looking! If you know someone, reach out to sandra.hiller at ifixit.com. Once we get a system in place, we'll open all the guides up to community translation. In the meantime, we really need help translating the iFixit interface into Russian. Can you pitch in over here? https://translate.ifixit.com
I took care of it. He actually wasn't a spammer, but an overzealous security researcher. But the net effect is the same, and they should be more careful about not polluting the site with failed research attempts.
It depends on the guide. In this case, that guide requires reputation of 30k to approve edits. There aren't very many folks with that reputation level, so that means it's usually staff that approve them. We're pretty on top of it during the week. Since this is a French edit, we let our French translators approve them. I went ahead and approved them this time. But next time just hold tight, they'll get to it soon! We should probably look into lowering the rep requirements for translating. @mayer I'm not seeing any problems accepting it myself, but I'll take a look at the error logs.
You could make your own. I was hanging out with Adam Savage the other day and he made himself a wood holder for his bits. It's pretty handy. If you want an empty 64 bit case, we could probably track one down for you next time @kaykay sends out a package.
We do have some bug fixes coming to the android app — @tasp is working on that. We don't plan on adding better answers support to the app, though. I think if you're focused on Answers, then your better option is to use Chrome. We can and should push notifications from the website to your app. I'll see what we can do on that.
There's definitely overlap with the name of the certification. The reason for that is that the original Master Techs group was one of the inspirations for the name of the certification. And since they predated the cert, we didn't feel like we could take their name away! With this group, the 'For the actual master techs' tagline looks like a playful poke at some of our greybeards. We should definitely work on getting everyone certified!
